Yahoo! Site Explorer (YSE) was a

Yahoo! Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its a ...

service which allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index. The service was closed on November 21, 2011, and merged with

Bing Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Tools (previously the ''Bing Webmaster Center'') is a free service as part of Microsoft's Bing search engine which allows webmasters to add their websites to the Bing index crawler, see their site's performance in Bing (clicks, i ...

, a tool similar to

Google Search Console Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is a web service by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing status, search queries, crawling errors and search engine optimization, optimize visibility of their websites. Until 20 ...

(previously Google Webmaster Tools). In particular, it was useful for finding information on

backlink From the point of view of a given web resource (referent), a backlink is a regular hyperlink on another web resource (the referrer) that points to the referent. A ''web resource'' may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory. A ba ...

s pointing to a given webpage or domain because YSE offered full, timely backlink reports for any site. After merging with Bing Webmaster Tools, the service only offers full backlink reports to sites owned by the webmaster. Reports for sites not owned by the webmaster are limited to 1,000 links. Webmasters who added a special authentication code to their websites were also allowed to: * See extra information on their sites * Submit

Sitemaps Sitemaps is a protocol in XML format meant for a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, h ...

* Submit up to 20

URL A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identi ...

removal requests for their domains to Yahoo!. * Rewrite dynamic URLs from their site by either removing a dynamic parameter or by using a default value for a parameter. * Submit feeds for Yahoo Search Monkey * View Errors Yahoo encountered while crawling their web site

References

{{Yahoo! Inc. Site Exploreri Search engine webmaster tools